The convention will have to solve is, you know, thisegitimat issue, which relates to what we have been talking about. A distrust of politics. And i think that the election of thes independents that were not even, mean, the curious example of how unexpected this was was when they didn't even have the photoes of those candidates for showing who had won. It was just outrageous, you know.
Dan interviews scholars Aldo Madariaga and Camila Vergara about how Chilean politics have been playing out since the massive popular uprisings that began in October 2019.
Further reading:
jacobinlat.com/2021/06/19/el-neoliberalismo-atenta-contra-la-democracia-2
newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/burying-pinochet
jacobinmag.com/2021/06/rene-rojas-interview-democracy-new-constitution-constituent-assembly-plebiscite-left-chile
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